Unarmed

7: Fake Real

Haggy was very unwilling to let them get off the hook so easily.

"I am not going to let you live here if you are going to dishonor us this way," she explained.

"You are asking for too much, my arms are a part of me. You can't just expect me to give them up, that's insane." Retorted Izzy, hugging her arms to her chest.

"I'm not sure I understand your concerns," said Haggy, cocking her head in confusion. "You won't be completely without arms, you see we give prosthetic arms for any time you need them." She gestured over at a different old alien man who was fitting prosthetic arms on Cassidy.

Cassidy looked up, smiling when he had finished. "See Izzy, it's not that bad. It's practically the same as having normal arms, just they're removable."

"Oh that's not as bad as I thought" said Scott from beside Izzy. Izzy whaled around in disbelief.

"You can't ACTUALLY be SERIOUS?!" She exclaimed.

"I mean it's not that bad with the prosthetics," explained Scott, "I could adjust to this lifestyle if it meant being able to live here." Sunita and Rex nodded their approval.

Gaping, Izzy looked around at all her armless friends. Had the whole universe gone mad?

As Sunita, Rex and Scott stepped forwards to get their arms removed, Izzy felt a tug on her jacket.

"Are you ok with this?" asked Barry quietly. Izzy slowly shook her head and said, "run on my signal".

Barry nodded, "what's the sig-"

"RUN!"

The pair sprinted from the scene, weaving in and out of prosthetic armed and no-armed aliens that were trying to grab them, but finding it difficult to without any real nerves in their fingers.

"WHY WON'T YOU ACCEPT OUR LANDORIAN WAYS?" Yelled Haggy from somewhere behind them.

"BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO KEEP MY BODY IN TACT" shouted back Izzy.

"BUT PROSTHETICS-"

"I DONT CARE. I LIKE HAVING REAL ARMS, NOT SOME POEDUNKY FALSE ONES."

"THEY'RE BASICALLY THE SA-"

"THEY ARE NOT THE SAAME"

Izzy glanced behind her to get one glimpse at Haggy's angry, wrinkled face. Barry was a little bit behind her, struggling to keep up. A movement out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. Running towards them was a slender, agile, armless alien man, complete with 1 prosthetic arm and a pair of giant glowing scissors.

"BARRY LOOK OUT" she tried to warn him of the approaching danger, but it was too late. Barry looked behind him and screamed just as the blades closed around his shoulder.